History: Recent submissions
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“A TEST OF LOYALTY”: A HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY AND THE UNITED STATES ALLIANCE 1960 – 1967
Published 2012-11-01During the 1950s and 1960s Australian foreign policy was focused on ensuring the presence of the United States in South East Asia and the consequent protection of Australia under the ANZUS Treaty. For the Australian Labor ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Balancing Binaries: Michelet, Woman and the Tightrope of History
Published 2012-11-01The Nineteenth Century romantic historian Jules Michelet remains one of the canons of French history and as such much has been written concerning both Michelet the man and his approach to history. This thesis seeks to ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Exclusive Inclusion: Aboriginality, The 'Juggernaut' of Modernity and Australian National Identity.
Published 2012-11-01Recent studies of the problems inherent to Australian nationalism throughout the twentieth century have highlighted the consequences of Britain's efforts to dissociate itself from its imperial ties following the Second ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Petticoat Government”: The Eaton Affair and Jacksonian Political Cultures
Published 2012-11-01Though typically trivialised by historians, the Eaton Affair preoccupied Andrew Jackson throughout his first presidency and lived on in nineteenth-century popular memory. This thesis sets aside dismissive, partisan and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Making and breaking order via clothing Clothing regulation, cross-dressing, and the ordering mentality in later medieval and early modern England
Published 2012-11-01Following the events which disrupted social stability in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, individuals from a variety of social contexts demonstrated a particular necessity to see order visibly displayed in society. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours